UPDATE: Bochy discusses SF Giants rotation plans

UPDATE, 5:25 p.m.: As expected and speculated, the Giants plan to have Chad Gaudin start Sunday’s game in Phoenix and push Tim Lincecum back to Tuesday in Pittsburgh.

Manager Bruce Bochy Sunday’s starter officially is TBA because the plans could change if Gaudin is needed in the bullpen.

The rotation would have Matt Cain, Madison Bumgarner and Gaudin pitch against the first-place Diamondbacks at a park where Lincecum truly has struggled — not just when he faces Paul Goldschmidt.

Lincecum has made start in each of the past three season at Chase Field that were remarkably identical, allowing five runs in all three games over 5, 5 1/3 and 5 innings.

Pittsburgh has more of a pitchers’ park, though Lincecum was shelled there in the final game of the first half last year (3 1/3 innings, six runs).

Meanwhile, Bochy said Pablo Sandoval and Angel Pagan both came to the park on the off day Monday and ran. Sandoval obviously felt good enough to play. Pagan is still feeling something in his hamstring and ran at 70 percent. The disabled list still remains a possibility, but not if Pagan can help off the bench.

Finally, Bochy revealed that he and Cain looked over video and concluded that he was not tipping pitches out of the stretch. The main issue, as Cain said all along, was bad pitch execution.

ORIGINAL POST: And Pablo Sandoval is your surprise entrant after missing the weekend in St. Louis with a foot injury.

Angel Pagan apparently just isn’t healing. We’ve heard no word on the disabled list. Maybe the Giants have decided if they’ve waited this long, they should wait and see if he’ll be ready for Arizona.

Problem is, today is the last day they can place him on the disabled list retroactively to the first day he actually missed. After today, he’ll have to sit on the DL for five days after they’d DL him.